Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Studies for Figures and Grotesque Masks. Verso: Studies of St. John the Baptist Holding a Bowl; Mercury; an Erotic Scene; a Grotesque; and Various Figures, possibly for a Calvary Scene
ca. 1508-1512
7 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (194 x 142 mm)
Pen and brown ink over black chalk; verso: pen and brown ink over red chalk, inscribed lines on left and upper left figures.
II, 39 (recto) - II, 40 (verso
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
According to Carminati (1994), recto is comparable to Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Louvre (inv. no. 6782).
According to Carminati (1994), recto is comparable to Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Louvre (inv. no. 6782).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, "13". Verso: inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, "14".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 36.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 39-40.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi,1994, p. 256-257, D32-33, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 39-40.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi,1994, p. 256-257, D32-33, repr.
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